Us Tech Giants

Apple to put a bigger focus on India by making it a separate region

The shift will mark the first time that India becomes its own sales region at Apple, which has seen demand surge in the country

Elon Musk hires his dog as Twitter CEO, says 'great with numbers'

Musk tweeted a picture of his pet dog 'Floki' sitting on the company's CEO's chair, with the caption: 'The new CEO of Twitter is amazing'

Weak earnings from tech giants call time on stocks rally, US payrolls loom

The MSCI World Stock Index slipped 0.2%, but was still near its highest since last August following a sharp rebound in recent weeks on hopes that central bank rate hikes are nearing an end

Apple, Alphabet and Amazon profits down as economic slump crimps demand

Apple's sales fell more than analysts predicted during the holiday quarter, slammed by slack purchases of iPhones and Macs

TMS Ep342: Tech giants wooing India, women's IPL, markets, licensing norms

Why are Microsoft and Google wooing India? Can women's IPL the success of IPL? Which factors will decide street action this week? What do new licensing norms mean for Delhi's nightlife? Answers here

Twitter will add granular details to verified badges, says Elon Musk

"Rollout of new verified Blue is intentionally limited just to iOS in a few countries with very little promotion. As we iron out issues, we will expand worldwide on all platforms," Musk said

LIVE: Court orders blocking Congress' Twitter for copyright infringement

From Facebook parent Meta's large scale layoffs to Musk's threat to Twitter account impersonators, catch all the live updates from across the globe here

Twitter fires more than 90% of India staff, leaving just a dozen

India is a key growth engine for global internet companies such as Twitter, Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google, which are relying on its large potential pool of new online users

Apple settles lawsuit against ex-employee Lancaster who stole trade secrets

Lancaster has been barred from 'disclosing, communicating, transferring, discussing, or using any confidential Information, in any form, without Apple's express prior written authorisation'

Poor quarterly show by US tech giants triggers $380 bn wipe off in m-cap

Disappointing quarterly updates from the Google parent, as well as Microsoft Corp. and semiconductor giant Texas Instruments Inc., triggered a selloff threatening to wipe more than $380 billion

Apple made illegal anti-union threats in Oklahoma, alleges complaint

Apple is violating federal labor law by engaging in surveillance and interrogation of employees, according to the CWA's claim

Latest news LIVE: SC terminates CoA panel running AIFF over FIFA suspension

From the CBI's probe into Delhi Excise Policy, the deposal of top Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and other firms' executive before parliamentary panel to Covid news, catch all the live news updates here

Apple lays off recruiters in a push to rein in hiring and spending

About 100 contract workers were let go in a rare move for Apple, the world's most valuable company

Google starts Street View in India with local partners after policy change

Tech Mahindra and mapping firm Genesys will work with US technology giant to 360-degree view of streets, landmarks

Microsoft, Google among tech giants to pause hiring amid fear of recession

With recession fears mounting-and inflation, the war in Ukraine and the lingering pandemic taking a toll-many tech companies are rethinking their staffing needs

Alphabet split ends era of jumbo prices for megacaps: Report

The companies billed the moves as a way to make their stocks more accessible for retail investors and that has been achieved

Facebook starts testing non-fungible tokens with select creators in US

Navdeep Singh who is a product manager at Meta (formerly Facebook) shared screenshots of NFTs on Facebook late on Thursday

Meta warns employees 'to expect a tough second half' in internal memo

The Meta executive added that the company is in "serious times here and the headwinds are fierce", underscoring that its challenges aren't likely to vanish anytime soon

Meta and other tech giants form metaverse standards body, exclude Apple

Participants in the Metaverse Standards Forum include many of the biggest companies working in the space, from chip makers to gaming companies

New EU rules regulating US tech giants likely to set global standard

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) sets out a list of dos and don'ts targeting each tech giant's core business practices